The Patriot Post® · Ahlert on ObamaCare Fiasco

Columnist Arnold Ahlert has an appealing idea on the approach Republicans should use to dismantle ObamaCare:

“By law, the Affordable Healthcare Act must go into effect beginning on January 1, 2014. Not part of it. All of it, including the employer mandate the president ‘unilaterally and unconstitutionally defunded,’ as [National Review’s Andrew] McCarthy noted. Make the Obama administration defend that unconstitutionality in a court of law, where government attorneys would be forced to argue that the same bill Obama considers his ‘signature achievement’ is the one he’s willing to break the law as written to delay. … Under pressure from Congress, he directed the OPM [Office of Personnel Management] to create a new set of rules so that the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program can continue paying as much as 75 percent of the health insurance costs for Congress and their staffs. … [T]he validity of this stunt should be challenged in court as well, since the OPM has no statuary authority to authorize that change, and the president can be challenged for acting unilaterally to protect Washington insiders. The beauty of this particular aspect of the law is that, once again, the Obama administration, the very same one that never misses an opportunity to tout its ‘champion of the little people’ credentials, would be in court arguing that the Beltway ruling class deserves better and cheaper healthcare than those very same little people.”